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3rd June 1956: Rock and Roll music banned in the Californian city of Santa Cruz
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2018-06-02 21:05:05
Description: Authorities in the Californian city of Santa Cruz banned rock and roll music at public gatherings. The previous evening had seen around 200 teenagers attend a concert at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium by the Los Angeles-based Chuck Higgins and his Orchestra. Higgins and an earlier band, the Mellotones, had scored a West Coast hit four years earlier with the saxophone instrumental “Pachuko Hop”. This jump blues single has since been described as one of the key releases that bridged the upbeat jazz styles of the 1940s to the frenetic rhythm and blues that was to emerge the following decade. Shortly ...
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